Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1941 — Page 1

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HEAT IMPERILS TOMATO YIELD; NO LETUP SEEN

Rain Held Only Hope for Normal Crop: 4000 Acres Shrivel.

TEMPERATURES 3 10am . 87 5% BR 9 tn ag Ww 12 (noon) .. 4 . 83 pm...

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Junk Dealers Find $4885 in Old Gold

the 100-degree mark this afternoon!

23 Marion County farmers watched

their 4000 acres of tomatoes shrivel]

from “blossom-end rot.” With hopes for crop here already

evaporated by |

a bumper corn

the scorching sun and long drought, |

agricultural observers here said an immediate rain is necessary “normal” tomato crop.

for a §

But the Weather Bureau saw only

fair weather for today and tomor-

row with a high this afternoon of]

around S8 degrees and the same temperature levels for tomorrow. Last year the tomate crop In the county averaged around five tons an acre. The normal vield is 35 tons. Agricultural observers said if the long drought would end today the chances for a “normal” crop would he good.

First Picking in Danger

Horace Abbott, County Agricultural agent, said the “blossom end rot” has affected the first ripening of the tomato vines in all sections of the County. Many farmers will be able to salvage none of the first picking. he said. The tomato crop is a major factor in the county’s $3.000.000 annual output of vegetabie products. About 800 farmers devote from one to 30 acres to tomato growing. Mr. Abbott revised his estimate of the probable corm yield to 33 bushels per acre. a drop of 15 bushels under estimates of a month ago. Even in the White River lowlands

at the north edge of the county—!

some of the best farm land in this area—the corn has been damaged greatly by the drought. On one 18-acre tract owned by Carl Schwartz, where the normal vield is 60 to 70 bushels, the drought has reduced the yield to less than 40 bushels. The best of the new alfalfa is at a “stand-still,” Mr. Abbott said, while on some of the poorer lands the seeding has been lost. Livestock also is suffering from the drought due to the Ids of most of the pasture lands. Many farmers are forced to feed their green corn.

W. C. STEDFELD DIES: NORTH SIDE DRUGGIST

Walter C. Stedfeld. 3615 N. Pennsvivania St, one of the pioneer druggists of Indianapolis. died last night at St. Marys Hospital. Rochester, Minn. where he had been a patient for two months. Mr. Stedfeld was proprietor of the W. C. Stedfeld Pharmacy, 4901 N. Pennsyvivania St. He was 61 and had been in the drug business for many vears He was a member of Lodge. F. & A. M,, the Shrine and the Caravan Club of the Shrine. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Georgia Stedfeld; a daughter. Joann, and a son, Edward Stedfeld, and four brothers, Harry, Clarence, Albert and Herbert Stedfeld.

TICHENOR ‘ALMOST’ BEATS FALKENBERG

CULVER, Ind. Aug. 8 U. P).— Bob Falkenberg of Hollvwood, who never has lost a match in bovy rompetition, came close teday when he met Charles Tichenor of Indianapelis, but finally won. 6-4, 1-6, €-0. to enter the finalz of the National Boys Tournament. Falkenberg tired rapidly in running out the first set and fell into repeated errors in the second, which he was barely able to last out. He rested 10 minutes and then was unpeatable, despite a broken wrist suffered several weeks ago and a back injury received in a fall earlier this week.

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That's exactly $4883 in solid gold U. S. coins that Miss Agnes Riewer, a worker in the Federal Building, is counting.

HOUSE HOSTILE Abandoned Trunk in Garoe TO DRAFT BILL On Prospect St. Yields Riches

‘Finders Thought at First That Crusty Pieces Were Beer Checks: Original Owner Unknown,

Of 18 Months Is Facing \ | Perhaps vou have dayv-dreamed of how it would feel to find a burPossible Defeat. ‘ied treasure of gold—one of those caches hidden away in a chest. Well, there are two men in Indianapolis who can describe the senWASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P).— sation. They actually struck gold. Administration leaders thought to-! Franklin Keller, 822 S. Fast St. and Mack Winters, 529 Warsaw St, day that the Army service exten- two South Side junk dealers, found $4885 in gold coins in the bottom ST ER of an old trunk which had been sitting in the corner of a garage in [the rear of 405 Prospect St. for a long time, . And it's all theirs, unless someone steps up with a better title to it. The garage had been used by the two men as a place to store junk which they collected as a sideline to their regular business of hauling

Senate-Approved Extension

PEACE TALK FAILS IN SHIPYARD STRIKE

which raises the pav of all Army FDR May Intervene: 18,000 used furniture and hospital supplies.

men $10 a month after they have, completed 12 months of service. For | Workmen Idle. | Last Saturday morning, they were |digging around among the junk to

selectees and National Guardsmen! By UNITED PRESS {find a trunk in which they could

this would be an automatic pay) raise of $10 a month after they | Presidential action appeared im- store some old pipe. They found one. dusted it off,

complete their es ~V : : 3 SI of service Pre Recular Avs | minent in the C. I. O. strike at the 4 it k S § i , > : troops it would be a raise at thei{Kearny, N. J, shipyards today as SR . te yon Ta yop beginning of their second vear of two defense agencies drafted re- they saw some “pieces of metal.” oh Duals SSITAIA Snat [ports on futile attempts to restore! “Well, I'll be,” Mr. Keller said additional annually. Basic Army 3imost haif a billion dollars’ worth ro his Daiunery “lapis Uke some pay now is $21 a month for the | of defense shipbuilding. re i y first three months and $30 there. Failure of the Natio.al Defense The men picked up several of the | Mediation Board and the Office of 8T!Mme-encrusted pieces.

alter. “ ; . _ The House meets an hour earlier | Production Management to prevent Wok ee old beer checks,” Mr

than usual today ard the leader- the idleness of 18,000 shipbuilders i ship hoped to conclude the six hours | fOr the second day prompted the| MI. Keller of genera: debate allocated to the | Prediction that their reports on the|3CIOSS a piece and slowly read the legislation before recess. A final Case would be directed to President printed words thus exposed. (Continued on Page Five) Roosevelt. We Jtured then #6 was

sion legislation is in danger of defeat In the House, The Senate approved the measure 45 to 30 last night, extending the service of selectees. National Guardsmen and reservists to 30. months in all.

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GERMANS PUSH FAR IN UKRAINE, PERIL ODESSA

30,000 Russian Troops Captured at Uman, | Reich Claims. By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent Germany's drive into the] rich agricultural and industrial Ukraine appeared to be gaining momentum today but interest centered on the possibility that Russian planes ‘had raided Berlin last night. | The mystery was created by a ‘German report that ‘enemy’ planes | had hombed Western Germany and | that “a few planes” had reached |

| Battle of the Ukraine

500 miles |

Scale of Miles Q 50

| German | Berlin, Sea | The British carried heavy air attacks on Germany dur-! ling the night, concentrating on| | Essen, site of the Krupp munitions | works, Hamm and Dortmund, but | {the Air Ministry said, “No R.| |A. F. planes attacked Berlin last night.” i

out extremely Today's spotlight in the Russian war is on German gains in the Ukraine, Stopped by a Soviet “stone wall defense” at Zhitomar in a straight-line drive on Kiev, the Germans tried the pincers movement shown. Today Nazi informants said that Kiev was surrounded. British sources added that troops had swung southeast from Belaya Tserkov to the Dnieper River and were behind Odessa, threatening that great

Delayed Action? port city.

The Russian communique made | no mention of such an attack by Soviet planes, but the possibility

appeared that the Red Air uty NAZIS

had retaliated against Berlin for the |

first time for the repeated Luft-! | yrs attacks en Moscow. |

” on o SS - - THREATEN 2 More Capitol | . . 1 . I Bigwigs "Vanish WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P.. —Two more high Government officials were gone from the Capitol today amid rumors of a conference hetween | President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Church-

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN oe rd Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times | A ey were and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. Undersecretary

LONDON, Aug. 8—German pan- | of State Sumner : zer divisions under the command of | Wales Ally (Field Marshal von Rundstedt con- man in ‘several | [tinue to advance south and east-| gey moves | ward from Belaya Tserkov along the| against the Axis E ‘right bank of the Dnieper with the a ny Mr. Welles |obvious intention of driving Ihroush] H. BERT, Yight-hand man of Har[to Nikolaev, Russia's principal grain rv L. Hopkins, lend-lease co-or-port on the Black Sea. dinator. British military experts believe SE ins) that these forces are making sub-| Mr. Welles had left for “a short

COUNTY VALUATION The State Department said that ! ' ! | rest,” but declined to say where he GOES Up 17 000 000 stantial progress and that the Ger- was going. There was no informay y mans stand a fair chance of cut-

tion as to Gen. Burns’ wherere —— ‘ting off all the southern Ukraine

abouts. Associates said they were ing i . | “surprised” to find the general : .¢ lying west of the Dnieper as far Surpz Lower Tax Rate Possible if east as Nikolaev, They have al-| 80N¢ Budget Is Unchanged. ready cut the principal railway line

| between Viterbsk and odessa wn MILLION JOBLESS in turn, connects Odessa with Mos- |

Some British sources suggested | |that the British in their attack of| | Berlin last Saturday «night may

have dropped delayed action bombs : I | which oe are starting to Er New Drive May Cut Off A | Southern Ukraine West

'giving the Germans the impression | that Berlin is under air bombard- | ; : nent. t " British experts believed Odessa, | of Dnieper River. the big Russian Black Sea port, was | threatened by the German drive into the Ukraine. The German High Command re- | |ported a major success southeast of | Uman, a large junction point and regional center 155 miles due north of Odessa and about 80 miles south of Belaya Tserkov and 120 miles south of Kiev. The Nazi communique claimed (Continued on Page Five)

! Marion County property valua‘tions for 1942 taxing purposes ‘totaled $629,846,960, an increase of 1 $17.000.000 over a year ago, accord- | There is only one other feasible ing to figures compiled in the though roundabout railway connec- | County Auditor's office. ‘tion between Kiev and Odessa, by ; This increase in valuations would way of Gorodische and Cherkasi.| Handerson Sees Dislocation cause a substantial reduction in tax|gven this devious and rather sec|rates if departmental budgets for|gnd-class line seems threatened by In Defense Changeover. next year could be trimmed to the the German thrust eastward past level of this year’s expenditures, of-,| Belaya Tserkov. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P.).— | : . | Unless the Russians manage to| price Control Administrator Leon | However, increases asked in City stem this German penetration in| Henderson said today that economic ‘and County budgets for 1942, if not short order, Odessa may shortly dislocation resulting from shifts to | reduced, will require a general boost | ecame untenable and, according to|defense production might bring of from 10 to 15 cents in the rates.| jassical military rules, the Russians |{emporary unemployment to be- |, The $17,000,000 increase in valua- jay have to withdraw their main| tween 2,000,000 and 2,500,000 work- | tions is the biggest jump ever Te-| forces guarding the southwest ers. corded. in one year, County Auditor { Ukraine far to the eastward behind] Mr. Henderson told the House Glenn B. Ralston said. ‘the Dnieper River. |Banking Committee that this Of the total increase, $10,452,000! : : : | change-over might causes economic ron bai : ..| The Dnieper itself still stands as g ml 1 ‘was inside the City. The total City : i" ._ dislocation similar to that experi5 ; a” A ” a mighty barrier between the Ger- : valuation was $521,647,000 compared coed enced in England at the start of . | mans and the eastern Ukraine and to $511.194,000 last year. : : : ithe war. A 20 to 22 per cent unTa ; : y ; _.....! the Don Basin, the greatest indus-| h : d City valuations by townships were: | ; : -_ employment increase resulted in ter. $425213.000. an increase of trial area of European Russia. EX- ha) 4 3 Center ill, an increase : « + _| England during that period. $7.707,000; Perry, $886,000, up $25,- perience of the past few weeks in- Testifying again in support of 000; Warren, $17.371.000, up $1,429.- Slates Mintle Rusia may vary the Administration's rent and price 000; Washington, $60,831,000, up Possibly stem the present advance =..." cocure, Mr. $967,000 and Wayne $17,334,000, up of von Rundstedt’s troops before. .i that the dislocation might ex$332,000. they have hit the Black Sea and | o.q OPM estimates of between Valuations of all rural property that they may even more probably 500 to 6000 plants temporarily

‘cow and Kiev.

outside the city limits was $88,644 - check the Germans when they try closed down and more than 1,000,-

000, an increase of $3.653.000. {to cross the Dnieper.

[000 men unemployed.

Padlock proceedings were started lin Criminal Court today to close

Blue Invokes Old Public Nuisance To Padlock Tom Dillon's Establishmen

He said the dislocation eventually would provide a “reservoir” for increased production of both consumer and defense goods. | Henderson pointed out that raw | materials ‘“‘siphoned” from consumj= goods industries could be utilized to increase production capacity.

Law

bling was being conducted in his building.

during the last four years, demandling the return of large sums of

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Morgenthau and Aid Urge Senate Make Drastic Revisions. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U,

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Chief of the Navy, could use his! authority to seize the shipvards as fre unger the seat of the old he did the North American Aviation rc a iuie) em sig Go. piant at Inglewood, Ol. |Mr. Keller said. “Then we decided Settle Three Disputes |to ask advice from Mr. E. J. Baker of Baker Bros. We do hauling for him.” Lost Job in Auto Bureau : : : agents in Federal Building. When GOP Took Over. I Dirives. bituminous coal and gol went. to Ay Federal build- ; : [A Sis.0ay & Hy Settled. ing, but got into the Internal ReveCharles Skillen. Pulaski County Av Strike of 658 A. F. of ,,;e Department instead of the Democratic chairman who lost his L. carpenters on the $32.000.000, gacret Service Department. The job as assistant commissioner of the 18h explosives plant at Sandusky, (Continued on Page Five) Bureau of Motor Vehicles when was ended by an agreement _ ; the Republicans took over that de- reached at a conference of Army 'Highway Commission. jpenters agreed to resume work] The position of personnel direc- Pending consideration of demands tor has been vacant since last] (Continued on Page Five) spring, when Russell V. Grant, a| { ‘brother-in-law of Dick Heller, pa- | | tronage secretary during the Town- | isend administration, resigned. salary will be $300 a month. . It is reported in State House jcircles that the Highway Commisision will offer the $6000-a-year job ‘of chief engineer to Merton R. Keefe of Lebanon, who resigned as chief engineer last winter to take a Keefe had served as engineer for the Commission for several years and has had world-wide engineering experience. The chief engineer's position is now vacant because the Army summoned Earl B. Lockridge, present

| The President, as Commander-in- Money.” he said. ‘We put the pieces—more than a SKILLEN NAMED ROAD three other defense production dis- M, foaicer SusSetnd thay aie ie putes affecting such vital materials | C°InS to the U. S. Secret Service partment recently. today wa s Officers and representatives of the named personnel director of the Contractors and strikers. The carMr. Skillen is a close personal {friend of Governor Schricker. His job with a construction company working on defense projects. Mr. chief engineer. to report for duty | at Columbus, O., next Monday.

Clapper to London

Raymond Clapper is flying to Lisbon today by Clipper, on his way to spend a few weeks in England.

His column will be out of The Times for two weeks, starting tomorrow.

When he resumes writing, his column will be transmiited by radio from London.

permanently the alleged gambling | establishment of Thomas Dillon and his associates at Maryland and Illinois Sts. The petition, filed by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, is the first action of its kind filed in Marion County in many years. The Dillon establishment has

been raided more than a dozen times in the last four years.

gaming equipment and charged Dillon with keeping a gaming house. His case has been set for

The | last raid occurred two weeks ago! when police confiscated elaborate

hearing in Municipal Court Sept. 10. | Also several civil suits have been,

money allegedly lost in dice games at the place. The padlock proceedings were {based on the old Public Nuisance | Law which provides for padlocking | of buildings in which law violations 'have occurred: over a period of | vears. It was used extensively dur- | ing prohibition days to close speakeasies. | The petition named as additional defendants, Dillon's two alleged partners, Clifford Carmody and Charles Custer. Also named in the | proceedings was John Carr, alleged

Dillon place was located. Prosecutor Blue said that police

“Carr was included in the affidavit because records show that he was notified of law violations in his property back in 1937,” Mr. Blue said. The case will be set for hearing by Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers, who has authority under the Nuisance Law to order ‘the place padlocked if evidence of law violations is sufficient to support the charges. Mr. Blue said that he had evidence to show that the place had been wired up with an elaborate

officers and that police are in

filed in Superior and Circuit Courts Carr several years ago that gam-| gambling equipment seized there.

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| VICHY ‘BIG 3° CONFER | VICHY, Aug. 8 (U. P.).—France’s triumvirate—Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, and Gen. Maxime Weygand —met in an unexpected conference tonight. Weygand flew from Algiers and Darlan drove from Paris where he has heen conferring with German authorities.

SEPARATE NAZIS, ITALIANS | NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (U, P.).— | William C. Teutsch of Springfield, | La.,

forced to segregate German and

officers served formal notice on Mr. possession of a large amount of Italian prisoners of war in Africa,

|because they “fight like hell.”

Tomo i : turning: from South Africa owner of the building in which the buzzer system which had been used |oday on Ang S. S. City of New!

to warn operators of approaching york, said thé British have been

| P.).—The Administration toe day renewed it appeal for lower individual exemptions ' and stiff surtaxes on personal | income, beginning at a rate of | 11 per cent on the first tax-

| able dollar, Assistant Secretary of the Treass | ury John L, Sullivan urged the Sens

|ate Finance Committee to rewrite |the House-approved $3.206,200,000 {tax bill to provide for the higher | surtaxes., The House version starts | surtaxes at 5 per cent on the first | taxable dollar. { Mr. Sullivan testified before the {committee after Secretary Henry | Morgenthau Jr. had repeated Prese |ident. Roosevelt's appeal for a lows lering of personal exemptions from $800 to $750 for single persons and | $2000 to $1500 for married couples, |

Five-Point Program

Mr. Morgenthau's suggestion on that score was part of a five-point program to revise the House bill to provide what he estimated would yield from $800,000.000 to $1,000,000,000 more than the House total —jumping the total to approximately $4000,000,000 or slightly more. He asked that at least enough additions be made to bring the bill up fo its original goal of $3,500,000,000 The Secretary's estimates did not | take into consideration Mr. Sulli|van's plea. for the higher surtax irate, which, he said, would serve to {curb inflation resulting from higher wages. Mr. Morgenthau said a national income for 1941 of $88,000.000,000 to ($90,000,000,000 was indicated. He ‘added that it might well shoot over {the latter figure. The $90,000,000,000 {figure would represent a boost of $18,000,000,000 above 1940 income,

‘Modified’ Joint Return

Mr. Morgenthau said the “last thing” he would recommend would be a general manufacturers sales tax, but he proposed adoption of la modified form of the mandatory joint husband-wife income tax ree turn provision eliminated by the House. He also recommended revision of the excess profits tax schedule to conform with previous Treasury recommendations that the average earnings method of computation be abandoned in favor of the invested capital method. Both now are pere missible He urged removal of Pederal tax exemptions from new issues of state {and local securities: elimination of tax escape by certain concerns éns gaged in extracting natural res sources, notably oil; increased gift and estate taxes. Wants ‘Time to Think’

{ Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg { (R. Mich.). elicited from Mr. Mor={genthau the admission that the | Treasury, even with a $3,500,000,000 [tax bill, would lack about $2,000,= 000,000 of the necessary revenue to {defray two-thirds of the defense | program running costs. { Mr. Morgenthau agreed with Sen= ator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) that | overall Government expenditures | this year may total $25,000,000,000 instead of $22.000.000,000. Senator | Byrd asked whether he had any recommendations to make in case | Congress wanted to add $2,000,000,= 000 to the size of the hill, “If all of the suggestions I made lin the statement were enacted into | law,” he replied. “it would raise | $800,000.000 to $1,000,000,000 addi= | tional.” He asked about means | $1,000,000,000

“Welcome Opportunity”

He was the first Senate witness on | the tax bill, which the House passed lin a form that was about $300,000,« | 000 short of the desired total. | Mr. Morgenthau asked for an “all lout” defense tax program that would tap additional sources that have ability to pay. This program, he continued, should involve lowering of personal exemptions and consequent broadening of the income tax base, not only to produce additional revenue but to give millions of Americans in the lower income groups an oppole tunity—“a welcome opportunity”’—e to make a direct contribution to de= fense through taxes. : As part of his recommendation for lowering the personal exemp- | tions, Mr. Morgenthau urged that the method of tax computation he simpified for the benefit of the mil« lions of new taxpayers with small incomes who would be brought in. This also corresponded to the Press lident's recent suggestion.

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